<div class="doc-item" id="doc-679"><h2 class="doc-item-name">compile<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">compile</span>  lib)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Compiles the namespace named by the symbol lib into a set of
  classfiles. The source for the lib must be in a proper
  classpath-relative directory. The output files will go into the
  directory specified by *compile-path*, and that directory too must
  be in the classpath.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:3736
(defn compile
  [lib]
  (binding [*compile-files* true]
    (load-one lib true true))
  lib)</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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